Run For Your Wife

Run For Your Wife
By Ray Cooney. Gold Coast Little Theatre. Director: Dorothy Henderson. Sep 1- 22, 2018.

Farce is described as a boisterous comedy and this production had it all: a laugh-a-minute script executed by a very talented cast under the direction of an equally talented lady!

By the end of the show the audience was divided between envy and pity for the taxi driver bigamist “John Smith”, play brilliantly by Noel Thompson with unwitting support from his neighbour, Bob Allen, and to the frustrations of his two wives: number 1 – Linda Furse and Number 2 – Natalie Stephenson, much to the amusement of the “strong arm of the law” - Nathan Schulz and Bruce Alker Jnr and the frequently sashaying visits from the gay dressmaker – George Pulley. 

A single set scene represented the living area of both of the flats, which easily showed all the “comings and goings”, and the cast never missed a beat in their timing with “double entendres” left, right and centre – much to the audience’s delight!

The play maintained a hectic pace throughout and by the conclusion both cast and audience felt exhausted.

This season is selling fast so don’t delay in booking for the best belly-laugh you’ll have this year!

Roger McKenzie

Photographer: Shane Caddaye

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